Marion van Binsbergen Pritchard, who helped save the lives of at
least 150 people---mostly children---in Nazi-occupied Amsterdam
during World War II, will deliver the seventh annual University
Wallenberg Lecture at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 16 in the Rackham Building
Auditorium.

Pritchard, associate professor and co-director of the Institute
for the Study of Violence at the Boston Graduate School of
Psychoanalysis, will address "The Active Role of Jews in Rescue and
Resistance During the Holocaust" in her free, public talk.

She also will receive the Raoul Wallenberg Medal, established in
honor of the University of Michigan alumnus who, as a Swedish
diplomat in Budapest in 1944, helped save the lives of thousands of
Hungarian Jews by bargaining with Nazi officials, establishing
safehouses, distributing false passports, disguising Jews in Nazi
uniforms and setting up checkpoints to avert deportations.

In addition, Pritchard will be available to the public at a coffee
hour sponsored by the University Center for the Child and Family and
the University Wallenberg Endowment at 10 a.m. Oct. 17 in Room 4448,
East Hall. That same day, at 8 p.m., she will meet with the public at
an event sponsored by Dutch Studies, Department of Germanic Languages
and Literatures, in the Rackham Building's West Conference Room on
the 4th floor.

Pritchard, born in The Netherlands in 1920, was enrolled at the
School of Social Work in Amsterdam when the Nazis occupied Holland in
1940. While working at a rehabilitation center in 1942, she was asked
to take care of a Jewish infant, who stayed several months with
Pritchard and her family until a safer place outside Amsterdam could
be found.

From then through the end of the war, Pritchard helped hide and
care for many Jews seeking refuge from the Nazis. She even passed off
as her own three Jewish children for whom she cared and helped
"kidnap" another Jewish child from her Nazi captors.

After the war, Pritchard worked at Displaced Persons camps
organized by the U.N. Relief and Rehabilitation Administration in the
U.S.-occupied zone of Germany. It was there that she met and married
her husband, Tony Pritchard, who had been an officer in the U.S. Army
and who also worked at the camps.

The Pritchards came to the United States in 1947 and Marion,
fluent in Yiddish, was hired by the Jewish Family and Child Service
in Boston to help refugees put their lives back together. In the past
50 years, she has practiced social work and psychotherapy, focusing
on the well-being of children.

Established in 1985, the Wallenberg Endowment funds the annual
lecture and medal presentation, and provides support each year for
doctoral students whose scholarly work is related to the goals and
values of the lectureship. The endowment is made possible through the
contributions of nearly 500 individuals and organizations in the
United States, Canada and Europe.

Previous recipients of the Raoul Wallenberg Medal are
Nobel-laureate and Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel; Jan Karski,
courier for the Polish underground resistance during World War II and
an early witness to the Holocaust; Helen Suzman, a long-time South
African legislator and crusader against apartheid; Buddhist leader
Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama of Tibet and Nobel Peace Prize
winner; Miep Gies, the woman who helped care for Anne Frank and her
family while they hid from the Nazis during World War II; and former
Swedish diplomat Per Anger, who helped Wallenberg save the lives of
Hungarian Jews during World War II.

For more information on the University Wallenberg Lecture, call Vi
Benner, Rackham School of Graduate Studies, 647-4566.